A former Obama White House press aide wrote a piece in The New Republic calling for an end to daily press briefings. Of the job of press secretary, Cherlin wrote: If there were a Hippocratic Oath for …

Assembly member Tom Ammiano has introduced a bill that would require public schools to allow children to change their gender identities, and then have access to the bathrooms, locker rooms and sports …

Friday’s White House event in San Jose was the oddest presidential appearance I’ve ever covered. To start, the White House did not schedule the event until after The Chronicle ran this story by Carla …

The best part about Ruth Asawa’s “San Francisco Fountain” is that people like it. As Chronicle architeture critic John King wrote, “This is folk art with a populist flair, 41 bronze panels that cloak …